Now just imagine what if Rep. Ron Paul somehow got elected -- any last
vestige of the Black middle class would be completely swept away during
the cleansing of the government payrolls.

Black people are reliant on government jobs; we've talked about it many times at SBPDL, but The New York Times
recently put an exclamation point on this subject that illustrates the
meme "Asteroid destroys earth, women and minorities suffer greatest" to a
T:

Don Buckley lost his job driving a Chicago
Transit Authority bus almost two years ago and has been looking for
work ever since, even as other municipal bus drivers around the country
are being laid off.

At 34, Mr. Buckley, his two daughters and his fiancée have moved
into the basement of his mother’s house. He has had to delay his
marriage, and his entire savings, $27,000, is gone. “I was the kind of
person who put away for a rainy day,” he said recently. “It’s flooding
now.”

Mr. Buckley is one of tens of thousands of once solidly middle-class
African-American government workers — bus drivers in Chicago, police
officers and firefighters in Cleveland, nurses and doctors in Florida —
who have been laid off since the recession
ended in June 2009. Such job losses have blunted gains made in
employment and wealth during the previous decade and undermined the
stability of neighborhoods where there are now fewer black professionals
who own homes or who get up every morning to go to work.

Though the recession and continuing economic downturn have been
devastating to the American middle class as a whole, the two and a half
years since the declared end of the recession have been singularly
harmful to middle-class blacks in terms of layoffs and unemployment,
according to economists and recent government data. About one in five
black workers have public-sector jobs, and African-American workers are
one-third more likely than white ones to be employed in the public
sector.

“The reliance on these jobs has provided African-Americans a path upward,” said Robert H. Zieger,
emeritus professor of history at the University of Florida, and the
author of a book on race and labor. “But it is also a vulnerability.” A study
by the Center for Labor Research and Education at the University of
California this spring concluded, “Any analysis of the impact to society
of additional layoffs in the public sector as a strategy to address
the fiscal crisis should take into account the disproportionate impact
the reductions in government employment have on the black community.”
Jobless rates among blacks have consistently been about double those of
whites. In October, the black unemployment rate was 15.1 percent,
compared with 8 percent for whites. Last summer, the black unemployment
rate hit 16.7 percent, its highest level since 1984.
Economists say there are probably a variety of reasons for the racial
gap, including generally lower educational levels for African-Americans,
continuing discrimination and the fact that many live in areas that
have been slow to recover economically.
Though the precise number of African-Americans who have lost
public-sector jobs nationally since 2009 is unclear, observers say the
current situation in Chicago is typical. There, nearly two-thirds of 212
city employees facing layoffs are black, according to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union.
The central role played by government employment in black communities
is hard to overstate. African-Americans in the public sector earn 25
percent more than other black workers, and the jobs have long been
regarded as respectable, stable work for college graduates, allowing
many to buy homes, send children to private colleges and achieve other
markers of middle-class life that were otherwise closed to them.
Blacks have relied on government jobs in large numbers since at least
Reconstruction, when the United States Postal Service hired freed
slaves. The relationship continued through a century during which racial
discrimination barred blacks from many private-sector jobs, and
carried over into the 1960s when government was vastly expanded to
provide more services, like bus lines to new suburbs, additional public
hospitals and schools, and more.
But during the past year, while the private sector has added 1.6
million jobs, state and local governments have shed at least 142,000
positions, according to the Labor Department. Those losses are in
addition to 200,000 public-sector jobs lost in 2010 and more than
500,000 since the start of the recession. The layoffs are only the latest piece of bad news for the nation’s struggling black middle class.A study by the Brookings Institution in 2007
found that fewer than one-third of blacks born to middle-class parents
went on to earn incomes greater than their parents, compared with more
than two-thirds of whites from the same income bracket. The
foreclosure crisis also wiped out a large part of a generation of black
homeowners.

The layoffs are not expected to end any time soon. The United States Postal Service, where about 25 percent of employees are black, is considering eliminating 220,000 positions
in order to stay solvent, and areas with large black populations —
from urban Detroit to rural Jefferson County, Miss. — are struggling
with budget problems that could also lead to mass layoffs.

Mr. Buckley, the unemployed Chicago bus driver who now lives in his
mother’s basement, said his mother, a Postal Service employee, had grown
tired of him “eating up all her food.”
“She’s ready for me to get up out of here,” he said. In the meantime,
Mr. Buckley says his life has drifted into the tedium of looking for
decent-paying jobs that do not exist.
“I was living the American dream — my version of the American dream,”
he said of his $23.76-an-hour job. “Then it crumbled. They get you used
to having things and then they take them away, and you realize how
lucky you were.” No Mr. Buckley, you were
living the Black-Run America (BRA) dream, which a dwindling majority -
of primarily white - Americans pay to keep afloat. Because for more than
50 years we have spent lavishly to make that dream a reality, the
consequences of this policy are nightmarishly transpiring before our
eyes (remember the Section 8 riot in Atlanta or the Detroit stimulus
money fiasco?).

Because not only are African-Americans
disproportionately the beneficiaries of federal programs, from the
Earned Income Tax Credit to aid for education and student loans, they
are even more over-represented in the federal workforce than they are
on state payrolls. Though
10 percent of the U.S. civilian labor force, African-Americans are 18
percent of U.S. government workers. They are 25 percent of the
employees at Treasury and Veterans Affairs, 31 percent of the State
Department, 37 percent of Department of Education employees and 38
percent of Housing and Urban Development. They are 42 percent of the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corp., 55 percent of the employees at the Government Printing Office and
82 percent at the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency. When
the Obama administration suggested shutting down Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac, the mortgage giants whose losses of $150 billion have had
to be made up by taxpayers, The Washington Post warned, in a story
headlined, “Winding Down Fannie and Freddie Could Put Minority Careers
at Risk,” that 44 percent of Fannie employees and 50 percent of
Freddie’s were persons of color.There is a war on white
America. It didn't start with Mein Obama but his election has put a
paperbag test passing face on that war. Same goes with Eric "My People"
Holder. In March of 2012, you'll find out more in Down to Slavery: Obama's War on White America.

Tavis Smiley said that 2012 would be the most racial divisive election
in American history.We'll do our part to show voters the truth of BRA
and who helped erect this system (the answer is members of both
political organizations); help us do that by making a contribution to
SBPDL via PayPal or send a message to SBPDL1@gmail.com. For each
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"Fall of Black Middle Class" Your fuckin kidding right? they walk around w/ wads of 100's and get food stamps/ make babies/ sell crack, Not all but most and definitely not Hussein Bary Ubamer but his Bro is smokin joe yo...

Posted Dec-6-2011 By

T_Bone69

Our own United States government is the biggest RACIST around!!!
African-Americans are:
10 percent of the U.S. civilian labor force
25 percent of the employees at Treasury and Veterans Affairs
31 percent of the State Department
37 percent of Department of Education
38 percent of Housing and Urban Development
42 percent of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp
55 percent of the employees at the Government Printing Office
82 percent at the Court Services anMore..d Offender Supervision Agency
44 percent of Fannie(Mae) employees
50 percent of Freddie(Mac) employeesLess..

thoth1

Posted Dec-6-2011 By

Pestis

If they only depend on Govt Jobs,.. well,.. that is the problem right there in front of you,.
you can't depend on Govt jobs,especially ones paid for with Fed Air Money,..
you need to get real jobs,from the private sector,.or even one better,.
CREATE ONE YOURSELF!

Posted Dec-6-2011 By

patriots_act

@patriots_act
sooner or later,the Govt is going to have to invest into the private sector with our tax dollars instead of employing the Military Complex,and investing into stupid Nation Building,
and invest in us for once,something this Congress & current President have forgotten,.Obama is all talk,.